# Violence raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than seven-thousand people, many of them civilians, since last month. DRC prime minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka told the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva that the security situation in eastern DRC has reached alarming levels. The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has seized large swathes of the mineral-rich eastern DRC in the face of limited resistance from Congolese forces. The dead include more than two-thousand-500 bodies buried without being identified and another one-thousand-500 bodies still in the morgue.
DRC prime minister says more than 7 000 people killed since last month